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Bookmark this pageCurtain Call (1997)
Director: Peter Yates
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From Time Out Film Guide
Spader, a publisher with job trouble and a nervous love life, moves into an old house, which, he soon discovers, he's sharing with a couple of bickering ghosts (Caine and Smith). Not a lot happens. Plotting is unadventurous, the dialogue contains about a million words, none of them amusing or clever, and the film curls up and dies in the pauses for laughter which the actors have optimistically allowed after each feeble rally. Spader, lacking the practised insouciance of his co-stars, makes heavy weather of the hero.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Peter Yates
Producer: Andrew Karsch
Cast: James Spader, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Polly Walker, Buck Henry, Sam Shepard, Marcia Gay Harden, Frances Sternhagen, Valerie Perrine full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 94 mins
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